Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Of White Racist Dog Whistle Politics and National Defense: Dick Cheney Suggests that President Obama Would Rather Give the Poor Lazy Coloreds Food Stamps Than Protect the Country

There is a truism which argues that political sniping and disagreement in the United States "stops at the water". There was a complementary claim that Republicans and Democrats had a tacit agreement not to let political partisanship interfere with issues of national security.

The White Right, and the full embrace of the Republican Party as not just "conservative" and a white identity organization, but rather as "anti-Obama" and contrarian on all things, has fully jettisoned such a standing political consensus.

I will confess that even I am surprised by how low Dick Cheney has sunk in saying that Obama's minor cuts to the Pentagon's moneybag, under the budgetary hostage taking imposed on the country by the Tea Party GOP, is an example of how the nation's first black president would rather support the lazy handout wanting negroes with free money than protect the United States' safety and security.

The Republican Party and contemporary conservatism are a union of white supremacy and political ideology.

The Republican Party and the White Right in the post civil rights era are also driven by "symbolic racism". This type of "modern racism" suggests that African-Americans have "bad culture", do not believe in "traditional" American values, are lazy and not hard working, nor are they patriotic or loyal.

Dick Cheney's racist comments about the proposed cuts to the Pentagon's budget is an ideal-typical example of symbolic racism in practice, one worthy of a textbook.

Do Republicans have any standards at all, or has Obama derangement syndrome sent them fully over the edge in a fit of white racism that has irreconcilably separated them from empirical reality?

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"....or has Obama derangement syndrome sent them fully over the edge in a fit of white racism that has irreconcilably separated them from empirical reality?"This. One could also say the same thing about some Liberals too, but it seems to have infected a majority of the Republican party and the Right Wing.

Anyone who attacks Obama from the right is insane. The Republican Party has been taken over by the far-right wingnuts that portray a narrative that has no connection to reality. Case in point: http://www.youtube.com/embed/6Zy297Xgr8Q

What has Obama done for the African-American community? Not a heck of a lot. Obama is closer to a Republican than a Democrat. The sequester was Obama's initiative. He renewed the Patriot Act. He signed NDAA 2012 and 2013 with the indefinite detention of American citizens apprehended on American soil and then vehemently defended its constitutionality in court. He signed the $9 billion cuts to the food stamp program and signed the bill that undid the sequester cuts to the military.

But we end up with a Rockefeller Republican in blackface with Barack Obama. —Cornel West

Well, he’s [President Obama] very, very smart. But there’s a “divided man” quality to him. He tells people, “I’m a blue dog. I want fiscal restraint and order.” At the same time, as he told me, “I don’t want to cut entitlements in any way that would hurt vulnerable populations.” So, there isn’t the quality of, “This is how we’re going to do it.” When I was in the Navy in the ‘60s an executive officer had a plaque in his office that said, “He who does not know to which port he is sailing has no favorable wind.” Sometimes it is not clear whether Obama is sailing to the fiscal restraint port – or to the “protect-the-entitlements-at-all-costs” port. —Bob Woodward

The Republican political policy goals are to move any policy negociations as far to the right as possible so that the middle ground of a "reasonable compromise" is far to right of center. The minority community has been traditionally used to distract the masses from the excesses (Watergate, Bridgegate, 2008 market crash, WMD Lies/Iraq War, etc) of Republican governance. It should not go unobserved that the so-called "Centrist (DLC) Democrats" often offer "centrist" policies that only serve to move the ball further to the middle-right and is viewed as a reasonable compromise to the draconion policy proposals of the Republicans. The Clintons aren't shy about using racist tactics (Welfare Reform, SC-2008) to further their political goals. The problem for liberals is that the Racist Right (Dems and Repubs) aided by the mushy MSM's "even handed" reporting only "seems" politically balanced when compared to the overt "Rebel Yell" coming from Fox. the reality is that the MSM's reporting offers (bait click) policy proposals that are so outlandishly to the far right that the modern political middle ground makes the overt Goldwate/Wallace racist policy proposals from the 60's look downright liberal. IMHO, the right is just playing racist games to rally their troops. It's their traditional response (Southern Strategy) to stem the liberal tide. The problem for the minority community is that "so-called Liberal Democrats and our "pretend" allies in the "centrist" DLC don't call out racist propaganda, in real terms, as often as it appears in public pronouncements, like those from Cheney, et al. The minority community is still, despite the subtle progressive gains by Obama, at the mercy of a semi-racist Democratic Party that still takes our votes for granted. Witness the fact that SoS Clinton is pondering (yeah, right..!!)) a run for the presidency in 2016, after running a racist campaign in SC-2008. She knows that even if she runs a center-right campaign the minority community will support her. We have no allies, only greater and lesser enemies. When is the last time SoS Clinton called out the Republicans for their overt racism? Exactly..!!

Republicans are willing to say whatever they can without any accountability because they are simply not the one's in charge. There is also plausible deniability from the far right thinkers. If one of their own steps over a line, they can simply say, "That's not what the Republican Party believes and stands for" despite the fact that a majority of what the republicans say sound very similar to something Don Yelton would say about "lazy blacks" or when L. Brooks Patterson made comments about building a fence around Detroit and locking the Indians inside (he's probably pissed off because Native Americans have been actively blocking the Keystone XL pipeline).

Gojira is back. Looks so much better than the first one. I hope that they did some rewrites and improved the leaked script. I also like Watanabe's role and the explanation that all the nuke testing in the 1950s was an attempt to subdue the Great One.

Brilliantly put. The issue space has been moved so far to the Right that even "centrist" Democrats are conservatives. Add in the Deep State and all of the anti-democratic forces and again the U.S.A. is not really a "democracy" and has not been in many years. The sheeple are asleep as designed.

All spot on, every word. The fact that Cheney is even invited onto these shows tells you a lot. When was the last time you saw Al Gore, or even less, any other ex-VP, being asked what he thought about anything? Not every other freaking day, that's for sure.

I just looked up that acronym behind the default picture of Cheney for the video, AEI. AEI is American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank which was very involved in Bush's public policy decision making.

Hmmm...I've wondered what draft that leaked script was, or if it was the actual shooting script--if it wasn't the shooting script then chances are that there have been rewrites (Frank Darabont did an uncredited final polish on the script). The character Watanabe is playing is supposed to be a "Dr. Serizawa"--a nod to the scientist from the original film, and yeah, I also liked the 1954 origin date, which is the year GOJIRA came out.I did like the trailer, and I'm hoping the movie delivers what the trailer promised.(Also...Juliette Binoche--in a GODZILLA film? That's saying something...)

The right tries so hard to paint him as a Jacksonian Democrat with the king Obama allegory and everything doing whatever he wants for his constituents... I suppose if those constituents are actually corporations.

Since we gained the vote, POC have always voted for the lesser of 2-evils.The trick is to follow-up and participate in party policy proposals once your voting strength has been recognized and an elected official made aware of you "special" interest in policy.

If our so-called liberal officials had anything to say about racism in the Republican Party they would be invited on the Sunday morning shows becasue it woudl be click-bait. Contraversy sells, period.The sad fact is that Democrats enjoy our votes without having to fight our enemies at the front. Remember, congress is a club for gentlemen, not warriors. We need more retired politicians from the South, like Jimmy Carter, to stand up to the Southern Strategy early and often. We can overtalk the racists just like they choose to do when debating liberals. Call a few of them "racist dogs" on a Sunday network political show and watch them scurry to the corners like roaches while the networks make a media star out of our truthtellers....Otherwise, SOS...!!!

Bill O'Really:There are 50% of the voting public who want stuff. They want things. And who is going to give them things? President Obama. He knows it. And he ran on it. —http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-oreilly-white-establishment-is-now-the-minority-people-support-obama-because-they-want-things/

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